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Please, for the love of GOD, will you please STOP ....

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ghosty · 26/08/2008 04:26

with the Baby Names threads?
Just call your baby what you like when it is born ... and then people can get used to calling your baby Tooty Frooty Smith or whatever as it is a done deal ....

But please stop listing names like:

Dante
Hector
Edith (Does anyone remember "'Allo 'Allo")
Blaise
Milton
BAYARD??? WTF?

I can't stand it anymore ....

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WhatSheSaid · 26/08/2008 06:13

Dante and Bayard were raising an eyebrow with me as well.

Just call 'em what you want, tell people after the baby is born and if they don't like it they'll just say "Ohhhhh...how unusual". Easy!

Dragonbutter · 26/08/2008 06:15

i love the baby name threads.
you could always hide the threads if they are making you sit rocking in the corner.

what about Mildew?, I think it's pretty.

ghosty · 26/08/2008 08:18

LOL @ Mildew

Hide threads? I didn't know you could to that ... how does one do that please?

Mind you, I think I may be too nosey to actually hide them completely ....

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BecauseImWorthIt · 26/08/2008 08:20

I hate these threads as well. I can never understand how someone who is so interested in such ridiculous unusual names also needs approval from a bunch of nutters anonymous women.

Hecate · 26/08/2008 08:22

Yup. Hide 'em and shurrup

Personally, I rather like it when someone comes on and, in all seriousness, asks what we think of Alfonso Falafalafal

FrannyandZooey · 26/08/2008 08:22

LOL
you just listed most of my favourite baby names
(not personally Milton or Bayard but there you go)

MaryAnnSingleton · 26/08/2008 08:25

ghosty - I absolutely agree with you but sometimes find myself looking and posting my approval/disapproval

hatrick · 26/08/2008 08:25

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3andnomore · 26/08/2008 08:26

erm, hide the threads Ghosty...and you know, you don't have to read anything you don't want too

tbh, I lurve these Babynames threads....but then I am possibly not normal....

(pst, would it be completely nuts to open up a namethread in Babynames , if the name would be for a cat?????)

ghosty · 26/08/2008 08:31

I have found myself shouting at the computer when I see a thread entitled, "What do you think of DingDong for a boy?"

I rarely open them ... It is just the thread titles make me want to poke my eyes out with a blunt stick.

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Hecate · 26/08/2008 08:32

Yes 3, y'freak, you!!

3andnomore · 26/08/2008 08:34

So, what do you lot think about the name Ziva for a little girlkitten?

(runs away and hides from ghosty ;))

Hecate · 26/08/2008 08:39

How is that pronounced?

zee-vah
or ziv-ah/ar

ghosty · 26/08/2008 08:41

3andnomore .... silly names for pets is fine, ok and in fact the right thing ... Ziva is a great name for a cat.
Samantha, however, is NOT!
Pets shouldn't be called by human names IMO ... unless they are old fashioned names like Hector

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hatrick · 26/08/2008 08:42

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3andnomore · 26/08/2008 08:42

like Zee-va . it's the name of a strong character on NCIS and Kitten needs a cool name, as our dog is called Ninja....

9off to hide again...Ghosty is scowling to me, I am sure I can feel her evil eye on me )

3andnomore · 26/08/2008 08:44

lol, I agree with you Ghosty (Hecot is the name of a Great Dane )

but hatrick it's a girl...can't call her Geoff....(our Tomcat, that ran off was called Shinobi ...it means Ninja, lol

Hecate · 26/08/2008 08:44

Ninja and Zee-va?

See, I don't think 2 names ending in an 'a' sound work together. What about Willow?

ghosty · 26/08/2008 08:45

I love your pet names 3andnomore - Ninja is brilliant!!

Geoff is actually a great name for a cat. But not for a Baby.

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3andnomore · 26/08/2008 08:45

Hecot- Hector of course

3andnomore · 26/08/2008 08:47

Hecate, well I don't care what you think............................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .......................................................................................
FLOUNCE [sticking Tongue out emoticon]

Willow is cute, btw

ghosty · 26/08/2008 08:49

Edith is a good name for a cat

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kiskidee · 26/08/2008 08:52

lol at ghosty.

I remember the days when MNers got along just fine without having a jury help them name their babies.

surely most some of these threads are just pee-takes.

DontHunAtMeIWillBite · 26/08/2008 08:58

hurumph, 3!

I think so, kis. But hormones do some bloody odd things to you.

3andnomore · 26/08/2008 09:26

Kiskidee or the posters using the Name Threads used to post those requests at Babycentre (excuse my language )

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